As many as 2,260 mayoral and councillor aspirants have so far collected nomination forms to take part in the January 30 polls to two Dhaka city corporations.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has welcomed the United Nations for adopting a resolution strongly condemning atrocities against the Rohingyas in Myanmar.

Fanuel Mapfumo has been unable to lift heavy objects since a Zimbabwe police officer fractured his left arm as he was covering a story last August.

Saudi Arabia has arrested more than 200 people for violating “public decency” -- including by wearing immodest clothing -- and “harassment”, police said, in the first such crackdown since the ultra-conservative kingdom began easing social norms.

The Liberian government on Saturday said it would not allow an anti-government protest in the capital Monrovia before the end of January, as opposition groups insisted it would go ahead.

Hundreds of people demonstrated Saturday outside Morocco’s parliament demanding the release of a journalist detained for criticising a judge in a tweet.

A Turkish military plane yesterday arrived in Mogadishu to evacuate those gravely wounded in a devastating bombing that killed 79 people and overwhelmed local health services, in the latest attack on a city dogged by insecurity.

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is an internal affair of India but nobody would be allowed to enter Bangladesh illegally, said Maj Gen Shafeenul Islam, chief of Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday.

With Aladdin’s lamp seemingly in hand, Nasir Chowdhury from a small town in Jhenaidah amassed a fortune in a mere decade.

Bangladesh is optimistic regarding the outcomes of the Gambian legal battle against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque said yesterday.

Until November this year, only 2,073 professionals went overseas with jobs, which is one percent of the total Bangladeshi migrants, says a report of Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU).

Ahmad Kaikaus, senior secretary to the Power Division, has been appointed principal secretary to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Members of the probe committee of intellectual killing meet President Syed Nazrul Islam.

Explosion of four crude bombs near Madhur Canteen yesterday left police and Dhaka University authorities puzzled.

No amount of fines has been able to stop businesses from cutting hills in Chattogram’s Mirsarai and Sitakunda upazilas, putting the environment at risk.

Public sufferings caused by the ongoing bone-chilling cold have been intensified as mercury continued to drop in the northern region of the country.

A seven-member committee formed at Dhaka Press Club during a meeting of intellectuals to investigate Al-Badr’s genocide of intellectuals. Zahir Raihan will chair the committee.

Customs yesterday recovered at least 64kg gold from the cargo section of the capital’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

A court in Vietnam sentenced a former communications minister to life in prison Saturday for receiving millions of dollars in bribes, as the hardline administration presses its anti-graft drive against once-powerful figures in the communist state.

Spain yesterday pledged to send investigators to La Paz after its embassy staff were accused of trying to sneak into the Mexican diplomatic mission with several masked individuals, an action denounced by Bolivia as a “violation” of its sovereignty.